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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who exerted an influence on mankind more than kings and emperors?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Authors.
(d) Priests.

2. What does Thoreau hear in the evening?
(a) Birds singing.
(b) Cows lowing.
(c) The wind in the trees.
(d) Goats bleating.

3. "I have never found the companion that was so companionable as..."
(a) Myself.
(b) Solitude.
(c) God.
(d) A book.

4. Where does Thoreau believe intellectual societies are confined?
(a) Paris and Oxford.
(b) New York.
(c) Literary circles.
(d) Europe.

5. Which book are most men satisfied by reading or having read to them?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Farmer's Almanac.
(c) Shakespeare's Sonnets.
(d) Virgil's Aeneid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird does Thoreau contemplate keeping merely for his music?

2. What does Thoreau state was a pleasant pastime?

3. What did Thoreau do early in the morning?

4. "We are underbred and low-lived and..."

5. What animal does Thoreau kill and eat after it ravages his bean-field?

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